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How does mid-millenium colonization of America prove current-year racism? This is pure CRT-adjacent nonsense. The use of words like "rightoid" does not help you
by the_doctah 5y ago
How does mid-millenium colonization of America prove current-year racism? This is pure CRT-adjacent nonsense. The use of words like "rightoid" does not help your argument.
- kragen 5y agoThe Trail of Tears, the US Civil War and the appalling form of slavery that led up to it, the Chinese Exclusion Act, racially-biased "eugenic" involuntary sterilization, Jim Crow, the Japanese internment camps, the Indian Schools, Wounded Knee, cowboys & Indians movies, the Tulsa race massacre, per-country immigration quotas, mass deportation, child internment camps, etc., are not mid-millennium colonization. There's an unbroken chain of racism running through US history since before its foundation, one so deeply embedded in US culture that I couldn't see most of it until I had been gone for several years. Idealizations of US history are common to all US factions, though their content differs.
- the_doctah 5y ago>one so deeply embedded in US culture that I couldn't see most of it until I had been gone for several years. Wherever you went, odds are it has an equally shitty history, and present.
- kragen 5y agoYup, but different enough to give me an outside perspective on the culture I'd grown up in. Argentina's present is actually shittier, but not in the same way.
- pphysch 5y agoRight. Sorry. I'll be more politically correct next time.